The disease most likely spreads through close, personal contact, although the scientific community is divided on whether it transmits through aerosols. While it produces less severe disease than COVID-19, monkeypox is on a worrying trajectory, said Dr. Hotez discussed vaccine strategies to fight COVID-19 and monkeypox-and why people shouldn’t wait until the fall to get their SARS-Cov-2 vaccine booster dose.Ĭould monkeypox become a pandemic? Could monkeypox become a pandemic?
In an episode of “ AMA COVID-19 Update,” Dr. He is dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine, and professor of pediatrics and molecular and virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. And not enough people are taking advantage of the tools that medical science has offered-either opting against initial vaccination, skipping booster doses or avoiding immunization for their children, said Dr. Still, COVID-19 remains the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States. The good news is most of the country has been exposed to the virus either through infection or vaccination, leading to a reduction in hospitalizations and deaths, noted virology expert Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, who helped develop the Corbevax coronavirus vaccine.
COVID-19 cases have spiked again with BA.5.
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